Narrative theme: Sense of place Books

Denied by his bride...Wrangler Rafe Banner proposed to ranch cook Kate Gifford two months ago. Her refusal destroyed their friendship. Now Kate's wealthy aunt will put her little sister through medical school, but there's a catch. Kate must get...

His heart is on the line!Wrangler Jake Lassiter craves the Buckskin Ranch's spunky housekeeper, Millie Jones, but telling her is out of the question. She's the kind of gal who deserves a happily-ever-after. He's not the kind of guy who can give her one...

Three ghosts, two sexy men, one murder, and more tricks and turns than the law allows! The Grand Opening is set for the Spirits of Texas Inn, and Hannah Duncan has one goal –Go Big, or Go Home! To kick off the auspicious event, Hannah brings a Wild...

Barney Starr rolls into a bucolic Oregon wine country town as a recently demoted newspaper reporter forbidden to write anything more interesting than a fluff piece on a local celebrity dessert diva. But when his car literally crashes into what looks...

The George Oppen Memorial BBQ could be considered a ritual, an invocation, a celebration, a protest. Its characters and landscape are an amorphous, chimeric Promised Land where retributions are real, demagogues are punished, and freedom is a call...

Becca Garvey's average life has just been upended by her husband's announcement he is moving to Florida to pursue his "dream" of becoming a full-time surf instructor, part-time beach bum. Left solely responsible for their thirty-acre hobby farm in...

Sometimes four weeks is enough... and sometimes it's not...Lillian Charm is content running Charming Inn. She has everything she wants or needs. Well, she kind of regrets her purchase of the house next to the inn. She wants to turn it into a guest house...

Becca Garvey's average life has just been upended by her husband's announcement he is moving to Florida to pursue his "dream" of becoming a full-time surf instructor, part-time beach bum. Left solely responsible for their thirty-acre hobby farm in...

Clint Hurley and his faithful Australian Cattle Dog, Josie, save a runaway girl from drowning, on a snowy Christmas Day. Now he is faced with a choice. Should he turn her over to the authorities or “rescue” her from far more than the river?I...

Things happen for a reason, right?Like when an old, blind lady reaches out her trembling hand to Katty at the convenience store and tells her, "Find yourself a faithful man-faithful and true." The woman's touch zings Katty's skin. "You'll know when...

Set in Wisconsin cutover land, Henry Oyen's 1919 novel Big Flat portrays a complex balance between communal class-consciousness and the individualist entrepreneurial spirit so central to American identity. As the landowners of Big Flat clear...

Join Elm Books for Estella Kuchta's stark and  stunning depiction of an escape through the Canadian wilderness.When daydream meets intuition, a young ranch wife’s life turns upside down. Fleeing a dangerous husband, she steals away with...

Ryan Howard has zero interest in the movie being filmed in Pine Harbour or the high maintenance stars staying in the cottages at the end of his lane. He's just barely holding on to the raw remains of his life and the fantasy world being concocted...

I'm a glutton for punishment.The reason? My foolish pursuit of straight guys. Correction. One straight man.Alec Rose.For twelve long years, my best mate's brother has starred in practically every fantasy I've had.Massage... oops... my towel slips...

★ New York Times bestselling author of the Old Fools series. ★This is Victoria Twead's third novella set in the sleepy village of Sixpenny Cross in leafy southern England.Ageing bachelors, the Captain and Sixpence, are...

★ New York Times bestselling author of the Old Fools series. ★This is Victoria Twead's first novella set in the sleepy village of Sixpenny Cross, in leafy southern England.Abigail Martin has everything: beauty, money, a...

Permit Me To Write My Own Ending is a collection that spans generations and timescapes - from gritty explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the US. Faulkner's language and form dissects the emotional...

Il petto si stringe e il cuore accelera. La cucina è un caos. Cammina su qualcosa di duro e guarda in basso. I dinosauri giocattolo sono sparsi ovunque. Ma suo figlio non è da nessuna parte, il suo bambino è sparito.Arriva la polizia. Non riesce a...

Come with me on a journey to my mind.Learn about how I envision nature, religion, oceans and artistic expressions- all in the form of poetry.These poems are aimed to bring about a serene mind, as you visualise these expressive poems.

ESCAPE TO PORTUGAL FOR SUMMER SUN AND SECOND CHANCES.Could an unlikely inheritance be the secret to Bella's happiness?Bella Cresswell likes her life organized. But when she inherits her great-aunt Florence's house in the Algarve, her life gets decidedly...

Jason Emde's poems in little bit die are intimate and haunted recollections of travel and freedom, of friendship and loss, of leaving and getting home. Careening from small-town Canada to Zimbabwe to Mexico to Poland to Tiananmen Square to Gifu, Japan,...

M of the Southern Downpours is Alton Melvar M Dapanas' second collection of prose poems. Dapanas, a resident of the in-betweenness of genres and forms as a prose poet and lyric essayist, crafts a book of poems which are part unsent letter to the dead,...

Boston (Lincolnshire) to Bangkok (Thailand) is a collection of poetry put together by a father and son collaboration. Although living six thousand miles apart with different lives Mike and Dominick are joined together by a love of writing poetry and a...

"Magical. Breathtaking. A true original." -Peggy Webb, USA Today bestselling author of The Language of SilenceFrom the bestseller author of The Lost Page.In Twenty Mile Bottom, Mississippi, a grandmother mysteriously disappears. Her 18-year-old grandson,...

Thatcher's Britain in the 1980s. A teenage boy obsessed with The Beatles and unsure of his sexuality is unceremoniously dumped in a boarding school full of rugby players who only listen to Madonna. No one wants to risk being seen with the boy who might...

In 1862, thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men were hanged in the largest mass execution in US history. This is the story of two young women-one settler, one Dakota-Sioux—connected by the fate of the thirty-ninth man.

"Imaginative, Intriguing, Prophetic. Hartnett at his best!" -Joe Edd Morris, author of The PrisonEscaping an assassination attempt, the underground figure El Buscador lands in Brooklyn's Gowanus, home of a toxic canal. His mortal adversary, developer...

Why did the LaMontaies run?Young Silas’ world is transformed when his father is implicated in the arson of the sugar mill in their south Louisiana town. If he didn’t do it, why run? What is it they are hiding from when they leave their Cajun...

The fun continues on Crown Island! A romantic, friends-to-lovers island story.After losing her job in Seattle, Maileah moves in with her sister Junie on Crown Island for a fresh start. Now in her thirties, she wonders if she will ever find the partner...

When Marianne is abruptly laid off from her tech job during a recession, she's forced to move back to the seedy Kansas City neighborhood she thought she'd left forever. As she applies for jobs in an industry that doesn't value the middle-aged, Marianne...

Opening a used bookstore, newly arrived Amanda Stimpson begins her quest to discover the answers to the mysteries of her name and ancestry.The stories she is told are fascinating, heartwarming, mysterious and shocking.The characters in the village are...

"Humor is next to Godliness."― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap To create Mantrap (1926), Sinclair Lewis adapted journals his brother Claude kept while the two traveled in Canada two years before the book appeared. In it, the author created the story of New York...

Mystery at Mirror Lake is about issues after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It takes place in a small mountain town in North Carolina. Denton Gage is the new Sheriff of Mirror Lake; he comes from New York City and was with the NYPD and one of...

All her life, Kat dutifully performed as faithful friend, daughter, sister, wife, mother, legal assistant. She was professionally retired and now an empty nester with an eye on the belly dancing course at a local high school. The exotic and feminine art...

Venetian Mirrors takes the reader on a meandering tour, whose path traces a poetic portrait of Venice-as mediated through the history of its representations-in which multiple voices and layers intermingle: fact and fiction, waking consciousness and...

At mid-life, Peter Sanguedolce has learned that having a big heart and good intentions are not enough. Divorced (again), he's slowly losing everything he cares about, including his family's sewer pipe business and, possibly, shared custody of his young...

January 2, 1981 The story continues...Margo Fischer-Owens' life falls out from under her immediately following her brother's wedding, necessitating an urgent intervention and rescue from the newlyweds. Her return to Minitonas for care, support, and...

Volume 11 of the Frost Meadow Review features Lynne Schmidt with a collection of poems and an interview. The EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD is presented to Jonny Bolduc. Selected works includes poems by Gale Acuff, Janet McCann, Eric Braude, Ryan Brennan, Cynthia...

On Florida's iconic 30A, mother and social worker Vinny Lillenhammer has a secret.About the Betancourts next door.Unrequited artist and newly widowed Lila Beckham has a secret.About the Betancourts next door.Thirteen-year-old left-handed tennis ace Gabe...

Green Fruit was originally published in 1917, the year the author graduated from Princeton. Crafted with elegant language and vivid imagery, the collection harkens back to the British Romantics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Readers will discover poems...

The poems collected in this volume offer personal and philosophical reflections on an age of disintegration. Written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it is divided into three parts. The second Part arose out of the character of the author's experiences...

The Sisters of the Soil meet up again for fun times and good food - this time in Newfoundland - where Hannah, from the U.K., makes an extraordinary find outside Rhodo's saltbox house by the sea. She insists it's worth a fortune. But is she right?The...

In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life--between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those...

Eight years apart hasn't made her heart grow fonder...Clare Walker is a third-generation company woman. Hart Apples saved her family from destitution and now it's her turn to return the favour. Work is her one true love, leaving no room for...

When Cameron's failing relationship finally comes to an end, he finds himself on the streets of Sydney, homeless and alone. All he has left is a suitcase full of his clothes, and his job as a security guard. Battling severe depression and anxiety,...